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On April 6, the Barry-Lawrence County held an open house at its new facility at Park Street and Chapell Drive. The celebration marked a new beginning for the 50-year-old organization serving bi-county children with developmental delays and disabilities and vastly expanded physical resources to help children grow and overcome.

The death of Dr. John Forsyth has been declared a suicide.

April 28-May 4, 1944 • The Monett Junior Chamber of Commerce walked off the highest honors at the state convention in Jefferson City. They tied for first place for outstanding athletic promotion, won first place for the largest delegation, a trophy for miscellaneous activities and second place in youth welfare promotion.

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Sitting in a basement classroom in the building that houses the Drury University campus in Monett, two teams of business students each met with a local business owner on the evening of Thursday, March 28, engagedinback-and-forth discussions about the businesses and their owners’ goals for them. While it may have appeared that the students were simply engaged in friendly discussion with the business owners, they were actually collecting ideas for a marketing project in which they were going to promote the businesses to the public.